The European Society for the History of Science expresses its grave alarm over the ongoing assaults on the academic freedoms of our colleagues in the United States and beyond. The Society’s core objectives include fostering cooperation and intellectual exchange between scholars in history of science, and the advancement of public education in the historical, cultural,… Continue reading ESHS Statement on the ongoing assaults on the academic freedoms of our colleagues in the United States
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CfP: Do Humans Also Dream of Electric Sheep? International Conference – Rome, February 27-28, 2026
Do Humans Also Dream of Electric Sheep?Technoscientific, Cultural, and Cognitive Challenges of AI International Conference – Rome, February 27-28, 2026 Organized by: Conference Theme The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the boundaries between the living and the artificial, the natural and the technological. The conference Do Humans Also Dream of Electric Sheeps? Technoscientific, Cultural,… Continue reading CfP: Do Humans Also Dream of Electric Sheep? International Conference – Rome, February 27-28, 2026
In-Between Meeting Workshop. 11 September 2025
Connecting Europe through Science: Themes, Policies, and Challenges Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM)at the University of Manchester Venue: Room 2.57, Second Floor, Simon Building 10:00–10:30 ◦ Introduction Simone Turchetti: Introduction — Europe, science and making connections 10:30–11:30 ◦ Session 1 Chair: Simone Turchetti Kostas Tampakis: Science, connectedness and the idea of Europe in… Continue reading In-Between Meeting Workshop. 11 September 2025
ESHS Early Career Network and In-Between Meetings, 9-12 September 2025
The European Society for the History of Science is pleased to announce the Early Career Network (ECN) Meeting, which will take place at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester on 9–10 September 2025 (see program here). The ECN Meeting will be followed by the ESHS In-Between Meeting: 12 September 2025 (morning) – Meeting… Continue reading ESHS Early Career Network and In-Between Meetings, 9-12 September 2025
Neuenschwander prize – 2024: Karine Chemla
The Council of the ESHS is delighted to announce that Karine Chemla has been awarded the Gustav Neuenschwander Prize for 2024. The ESHS Council recognizes Professor Chemla’s path-breaking, wide-ranging, and stimulating scholarship that has inspired generations of historians of science across the world to this day. Following the GN Prize award ceremony, Professor Chemla will… Continue reading Neuenschwander prize – 2024: Karine Chemla
2024 Early Career Plenary Lectures
We are happy to announce that the ESHS 2024 Early Career Lectures will be delivered by three promising scholars who were selected in light of the quality of their scholarship and the originality of their historiographical approaches. Their work is indicative of the talent, innovative spirit, and creativity among the younger generation of historians of… Continue reading 2024 Early Career Plenary Lectures
Enrico Giusti (1940-2024)
With great sorrow and sadness, ESHS institutional member, the Italian Society for the History of Mathematics (SISM) informs of the death of Enrico Giusti, an internationally renowned mathematician and historian of mathematics, who passed away on 26 March 2024, in Florence. Enrico Giusti achieved fundamental results, also in collaboration with some of the greatest mathematicians… Continue reading Enrico Giusti (1940-2024)
New Seminar Series: SISS Meets Early Careers
The Italian Society for the History of Science is pleased to announce a new Seminar Series. SISS Meets Early Careers The series is conceived as an informal place for early career scholars to discuss their research, present, future and past. Each session focuses on broad themes in the history of science and knowledge, bringing together diverse… Continue reading New Seminar Series: SISS Meets Early Careers
New history of science platform Science in the making
We are happy to announce that the Royal Society Publishing recently launched the new history of science platform Science in the making that allows free access to digitised versions of over 30,000 archival items related to the publication of our journals from the past 400+ years. This is an extremely important and ambitious digitisation programme that presents the complex material… Continue reading New history of science platform Science in the making
Conference: “Beyond Quantity. Research with Subsymbolic AI”, October 21-23, 2022, Paris
Accounts of machine learning, especially artificial neural networks, are currently considered to be the dominant approach in artificial intelligence. How does this form of AI challenge research, ways of knowing, and scientific practices? What problems need to be identified and what critical perspectives are appropriate to describe and evaluate the ambivalences, potentials, and risks of… Continue reading Conference: “Beyond Quantity. Research with Subsymbolic AI”, October 21-23, 2022, Paris